%0 Journal Article
%T Clothing Thermal Insulation for Typical Seasonal Clothing of Infant with Infant  Thermal Manikin
%A Yoshihito Kurazumi
%A Kenta Fukagawa
%A Tomonori Sakoi
%A Akie Naito
%A Motoe Imai
%A Reiko Hashimoto
%A Emi Kondo
%A Tadahiro Tsuchikawa
%J Engineering
%P 372-387
%@ 1947-394X
%D 2021
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/eng.2021.137027
%X <span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Infants are less thermally adapted to their
environment and can be considered as needing protective measures against
thermal environments. It is not ethical to conduct subject experiments on
infants. Thermal insulation in clothing is an essential control coefficient for
the evaluation of the thermal environment of an infant. A thermal manikin can
be used as an alternative method for carrying out experiments and to control
the thermal manikin based on heat balance. The purpose of this study was to
clarify the thermal insulation of infantsĄ¯ clothing. An infant thermal manikin
was used to clarify the thermal insulation (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">I</span><sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">cl</span></sub></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">)
of typical summer, mid-season, and winter cloth</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ing combinations for infants. The thermal insulation of typical seasonal
clothing combinations was 0.30 clo for summer clothing, 0.57 clo for</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> mid-season clothing and 1.02 clo for winter clothing. It was clarified that it
is essential to consider clothing conditions by taking into account differences
in posture and to define the clothing thermal insulation (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">I</span><sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">cl</span></sub></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">) when designing and evaluating thermal environments.
When designing and evaluating an infantĄ¯s thermal environment, it is essential
to investigate using data from infants.
%K Clothing Thermal Insulation
%K Infant
%K Posture
%K Season
%K Thermal Environment
%K Thermal Manikin
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=110561